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Item Open Access Doping management for high-power fiber lasers: 100 W, few-picosecond pulse generation from an all-fiber-integrated amplifier(Optical Society of America, 2012-07-16) Elahi, P.; Yilmaz, S.; Akçaalan, Ö.; Kalaycioğlu, H.; Öktem, B.; Şenel, Ç.; Ilday, F. Ö.; Eken, K.Thermal effects, which limit the average power, can be minimized by using low-doped, longer gain fibers, whereas the presence of nonlinear effects requires use of high-doped, shorter fibers to maximize the peak power. We propose the use of varying doping levels along the gain fiber to circumvent these opposing requirements. By analogy to dispersion management and nonlinearity management, we refer to this scheme as doping management. As a practical first implementation, we report on the development of a fiber laser-amplifier system, the last stage of which has a hybrid gain fiber composed of high-doped and low-doped Yb fibers. The amplifier generates 100 W at 100 MHz with pulse energy of 1 μJ. The seed source is a passively mode-locked fiber oscillator operating in the all-normaldispersion regime. The amplifier comprises three stages, which are all-fiber-integrated, delivering 13 ps pulses at full power. By optionally placing a grating compressor after the first stage amplifier, chirp of the seed pulses can be controlled, which allows an extra degree of freedom in the interplay between dispersion and self-phase modulation. This way, the laser delivers 4.5 ps pulses with ∼200 kW peak power directly from fiber, without using external pulse compression.Item Open Access Nonlinearity engineering of mode-locked fiber lasers: Similariton and soliton-similariton lasers(IEEE, 2011) İlday F. Ömer; Öktem, Bülent; Ülgüdür, CoşkunFiber lasers are attractive with their simplicity, high powers and low cost. However, propagation of short pulses in optical fiber leads to nonlinear effects, which limit the technical performance. These effects drive rich dynamics, which is interesting from a fundamental perspective. The nonlinear waves community has unraveled the fascinating world of solitons and similaritons through experiments in fibers. This paper overviews the recent development of the soliton-similariton laser. The original similariton laser was the first to work with nonlinear effects, rather than minimizing or compensating them. In the soliton-similariton laser, the propagation is strongly nonlinear everywhere. © 2011 IEEE.Item Open Access Nonlinearity management: from fiber oscillators to amplifiers(IEEE, 2016) İlday, Fatih Ömer; Şenel, Ç.; Hamid, R.; Teamir, Tesfay G.; Pavlov, Ihor; Teğin, Uğur; Ergeçen, E.; Elahi, Parviz; Iegorov, R.While the standard approach to performance scaling in fiber lasers seeks to reduce nonlinear effects through chirping or mode scaling, I will review recent progress in a complementary approach, whereby the governing dynamics are meticulously exploited towards achieving superior performance.Item Open Access Theoretical analysis of doping management(IEEE, 2013) Gürsel, A. T.; Elahi, Parviz; İlday, F. Ömer; Ozyazici, M.S.Two opposing requirements, such as thermal load and nonlinear effects are important limitations in rapid progress of high-power fiber laser technologies. Thermal effects, which limit the average power, can be minimized by using low-doped, longer gain fibers, whereas presence of nonlinear effects requires use of high-doped, shorter fibers to maximize the peak power. Proposed solution of the problem is the use of varying doping levels along the gain fiber to circumvent to mitigate the trade-off between thermal load and nonlinear effects. © 2013 The Chamber of Turkish Electrical Engineers-Bursa.